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| Title: | Loggers of the BC Coast
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| Author: | Hans Knapp |
| ISBN: | 0888395884 : 9780888395887 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 140x215mm |
| Pages: | 195 |
| Weight: | .264 Kg. |
| Published: | Hancock House - April 2005 |
| List Price: | 11.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Social & cultural history: British Columbia |
A blend of history and autobiography set against the primitive background of post-war logging camps and populated by a bygone breed of crude, philosophical, charming, and inveterately fascinating men. The author came to British Columbia in 1951 to shore up his family's war-blasted fortunes, and to follow a childhood dream. His memories of forty-one years in the woods are crisp and clear, the descriptions of death and adversity taut and visceral. At the heart of the book are the numerous camp-dwellers themselves. Men with names like Sidewinder, Slippery, Ha Ha Harry and Whispering Swede leap out from every page and demand to be remembered.
